Barry Blitt Quotes
I like to make myself laugh. When I'm just sitting with a sketchbook and trying to make myself laugh or trying to come up with ideas, I try not to worry about aim right away. I'm just sort of shooting in all directions.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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It wasn't my mother's laugh, the obscene laughter of a woman who knows. In Nella there was something chaste and yet vulgar, it was the laugh of an aging virgin that asailed me and pushed me to laugh, too, but in a forced way. I saw myself growing old, with that laugh of malicious innocence in my breast. I thought: I'll end up laughing like that, too.
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Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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I like to make myself laugh. When I'm just sitting with a sketchbook and trying to make myself laugh or trying to come up with ideas, I try not to worry about aim right away. I'm just sort of shooting in all directions.
